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It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.

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Woman, New, Mayor, Thrilling

I try to not think too much about how stuff gets seen as it's being done by a woman. Because if you think about it, then you end up thinking about how you're acting, and if you are thinking about how you're acting, then you are preoccupied and you're going to end up being insincere. You're kind of not present.

- Christine Quinn

Woman, About, Preoccupied, Insincere

At this point in my life, I'm not going to spend a lot of time focusing on dissatisfaction with who I am, and I'm not going to spend a lot of time tempering my personality. Whatever job I have next, I'm going to be somebody who wants to get things done.

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My Life, Next, Point, Dissatisfaction

I couldn't be more proud of my work as a progressive.

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Work, Proud, More, Progressive

When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

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Woman, Why, Point, Context

My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.

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Prepare, Back, Had, Organize

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.' You just kinda, like, stuff it away until - well, some people stuff it away forever.

- Christine Quinn

Love, College, Some, Dorm

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'

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Love, College, I Remember, Dorm

Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes.

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Politics, New, Add, Category

Bike lanes are clearly controversial. And one of the problems with bike lanes - and I'm generally a supporter of bike lanes - but one of the problems with bike lanes has been not the concept of them, which I support, but the way the Department of Transportation has implemented them without consultation with communities and community boards.

- Christine Quinn

Been, Concept, Boards, Department

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.

- Christine Quinn

City, Small, I Think, Businesses

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy.

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Small, Think, New, Businesses

I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.

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Both Sides, Here, Critical, Both Ways

I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.

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Think, Big, Like, Lovable

I've already begun to put pilot programs in place that give CUNY grads opportunities to get good tech jobs. We should expand on that so that New Yorkers are getting those jobs, because those jobs are probably one of the biggest 21st Century pathways into the middle class.

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Good, Begun, New Yorkers, 21st Century

The library of my elementary school had this great biography section, and I read all of these paperback biographies until they were dog-eared. The story of Eleanor Roosevelt and Madame Curie and Martin Luther King and George Washington Carver and on and on and on.

- Christine Quinn

Biographies, Martin Luther, None

People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.

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Woman, Side, Reasons, Lesbian

I come as one package deal. An Irish lesbian who wakes up every day and goes to work. And I don't spend a lot of time thinking about being 'the first this' or 'the first that' because it would take up space in my brain.

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Every Day, Irish, Deal, Lesbian

There's not a lot of conversation going on in my world about softening my image. I'm pretty much who I am.

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Pretty, Going, Image, Conversation

Am I pushy? Yep. Do I like taking 'no' for an answer when 'no' means New Yorkers aren't going to get something they need? No. Do I push back and crack some eggs? Absolutely.

- Christine Quinn

New, Some, Means, Push

I have big emotions, and I care deeply about delivering for New Yorkers, and sometimes that means you got to push things forward - and I think New Yorkers know that.

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New, Big, Delivering, Push

I know New Yorkers are gonna vote for a candidate - me - who has the longest record of delivering for them. They want a mayor who can deliver for them. And I'm the only one - I don't care who gets in - who has that record.

- Christine Quinn

New, Delivering, Longest, Vote

At times, you need to be forceful to get things that are stuck unstuck.

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Need, Times, Forceful, Stuck

I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.

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Woman, Fact, Been, Aggressive

People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.

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City, Play, Became, Lawyer

I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

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Proud, Through, Need, Gay

Chick-fil-A is not welcome in New York City as long as the company's president continues to uphold and promote his discriminatory views.

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City, New, Discriminatory, Uphold

'No one sits Baby in a corner,' one of the best lines in movie history.

- Christine Quinn

Baby, Movie, Corner, Lines

I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.

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Better, Want, Different, Chris

We all think people deserve second chances. None of us are perfect.

- Christine Quinn

Think, Second Chances, Chances

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